Coal Mines Historic Site

UNESCO heritage site in Tasmania, Australia

42°59′1″S 147°42′59″E / 42.98361°S 147.71639°E / -42.98361; 147.71639^[1]Area352.47 hectares^[1]Operated byPort Arthur Historic Site Management AuthorityStatusAustralian National Heritage List
World Heritage listWebsitehttp://coalmines.org.au

UNESCO World Heritage Site

TypeCulturalCriteriaiv, viDesignated2010 (34th session)Part ofAustralian Convict SitesReference no.1306RegionAsia-Pacific

Coal Mines Historic Site was a convict probation station^[2] and the site of Tasmania's (then Van Diemen's Land's) first operational coal mine, serving for a period of 15 years (1833–1848) "as a place of punishment for the 'worst class' of convicts from Port Arthur".^[3]

It is now the site of a collection of ruins and landscape modifications located amongst bushland facing onto the Tasman Peninsula's Little Norfolk Bay, being ruins and landscape modifications of such cultural significance to Australia and to the World that the site has been formally inscribed onto both the Australian National Heritage List^[2] and UNESCO's World Heritage list^[4] as amongst:

... the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Chapter 1 of Australian Government's "Australian Convict Sites" World Heritage nomination Accessed 5 August 2010
^ ^a ^b Australian Department of Environment, Water, Heritage, and the Arts "Coal Mines Historic Site" webpages 5 August 2010
^ Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania's "Coal Mines" website Archived 11 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 5 August 2010
^ Australia's Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts "World Heritage: Australian Convict Sites" webpage Accessed 2 August 2010
^ UNESCO's World Heritage "Australian Convict Sites" webpages Accessed 2 August 2010

External links

"Coal Mines Historic Site (Place ID 105931)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government.
Coal Mines Historic Site website
Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service - Coal Mines Historic Site

Convicts in Australia

Penal colonies

Events

First Fleet (1788)
Second Fleet (1789)
Third Fleet (1791)
Lady Shore mutiny (1797)
Castle Hill Rebellion (1804)
Rum Rebellion (1808)
Capture of the brig Emu (1813)
Argo disappearance (1814)
Norfolk Island mutinies (1826–1846)
Cyprus mutiny (1829)
Bathurst rebellion (1830)
Badger escape (1833)
Frederick escape (1834)
Wreck of the George III (1835)
Wreck of the Hive (1835)
Wreck of the Neva (1835)
Cooking Pot Uprising (1846)
Catalpa rescue (1876)
Anti-Transportation League

Convict ships

Governors and
commandants

Arthur
Bligh
Bourke
Brisbane
Collins
Darling
Davey
Denison
Eardley-Wilmot
Franklin
Gipps
Hunter
Johnston
King
Logan
Macquarie
Paterson
Phillip
Sorell

Notable convicts
and personnel

Surgeons	William Bland Arthur Bowes Smyth William Redfern D'Arcy Wentworth
Entrepreneurs	Enoch Barratt Daniel Connor Daniel Cooper John Davies William Field William Hutchinson Mary Hyde Henry Kable Solomon Levey Simeon Lord Mary Reibey Robert Sidaway James Squire John Tawell Samuel Terry
Architects	James Blackburn Francis Greenway
Bushrangers and escapees	Charlotte Badger Matthew Brady Mary Bryant William Bryant William Buckley Moondyne Joe John Caesar Martin Cash William Chopin Michael Howe Lawrence Kavenagh John Mitchel Thomas Muir John Boyle O'Reilly Alexander Pearce William Westwood
Artists	Joseph Backler Thomas Bock Richard Browne Knud Bull Edmund Edgar John Eyre William Buelow Gould Joseph Lycett Charles Rodius Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Thomas Watling James Walsh
Politicians	William Cuffay William Henry Groom Kevin Izod O'Doherty
Chroniclers	Denis Cashman Margaret Catchpole Frank the Poet Henry Savery James Hardy Vaux John Acton Wroth
Explorers	John Baxter James Meehan Joseph Wild
Other convicts	Esther Abrahams John Baughan James Bloodsworth Billy Blue John Cadman Elizabeth Callaghan Margaret Dawson Laurence Hynes Halloran Mark Jeffrey Jørgen Jørgensen William Smith O'Brien Robert Palin Isaac Nichols Joseph Potaski James Ruse Elizabeth Thackery Mary Wade

Popular culture

Music	Transportation ballads "Botany Bay" "Moreton Bay" "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" "Van Diemen's Land"
Film	For the Term of His Natural Life (1908) The Assigned Servant (1911) It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1911) The Lady Outlaw (1911) The Life of Rufus Dawes (1911) The Mark of the Lash (1911) One Hundred Years Ago (1911) The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911) Sentenced for Life (1911) Moondyne (1913) Transported (1913) The Tenth Straw (1926) For the Term of His Natural Life (1927) To New Shores (1937) Red Sky at Morning (1944) Under Capricorn (1949) Botany Bay (1953) Adam's Woman (1970) Journey Among Women (1977) The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008) Van Diemen's Land (2009) The Nightingale (2017)
Television	The Devil Makes Sunday (1961) The Devil Makes Sunday (1962) Against the Wind (1978) Sara Dane (1982) For the Term of His Natural Life (1983) The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005) Banished (2015) The Secret River (2015)
Literature	Journals of the First Fleet It's Never Too Late to Mend (1856) The Broad Arrow (1859) Great Expectations (1861) The Wild Goose (1867) For the Term of His Natural Life (1872) Moondyne (1879) Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) A Fringe of Leaves (1973) The Playmaker (1987) Remembering Babylon (1993) The Potato Factory (1995) Jack Maggs (1997) Gould's Book of Fish (2001) The Secret River (2005) The Lieutenant (2008) Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)
Stage	The Transports (1977) Our Country's Good (1988)
Art	Charlotte Medal Port Jackson Painter Rajah Quilt Sydney punchbowls Twenty Dollar Note